Felix in Exile

film by Kentridge [1994]

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"Felix in Exile" is a 1994 animated film by South African artist William Kentridge. The film is part of a series of hand-drawn animated works Kentridge produced in the 1990s, which revealed a "pungent humanism".1

Kentridge's films, including "Felix in Exile," often feature characters like the capitalist Soho Eckstein and his alter ego, Felix Teitelbaum. These narratives explore modern South Africa through the lens of late capitalism's spiritual, ecological, and emotional crises. Kentridge's animation technique involves creating a charcoal drawing, photographing it, slightly altering it, and repeating the process, often effacing the original drawing.1

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…City After Paris (1989) and Felix in Exile (1994)—follow the fortunes of the greedy capitalist Soho Eckstein and his alter ego, the sensitive and artistic Felix Teitelbaum. They present modern South Africa as reflective of the spiritual, ecological, and emotional crises of late capitalism.
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…City After Paris (1989) and Felix in Exile (1994)—follow the fortunes of the greedy capitalist Soho Eckstein and his alter ego, the sensitive and artistic Felix Teitelbaum. They present modern South Africa as reflective of the spiritual, ecological, and emotional crises of late capitalism.
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